An international team of scientists, including University of Sydney astronomers Professor Tim Bedding and Dr Dennis Stello, has made a new discovery about how old stars called 'red giants' rotate, giving an insight into what our sun will look like in five billion years.

School of Physics astronomer Professor Geraint Lewis is part of a team that has discovered two 'streams' of stars spread across the southern sky, produced by our Milky Way galaxy devouring one of its smaller neighbours.

School of Physics Quantum Physicist, Dr Michael J Beircuk, has been announced as one of four finalists in the Australian Innovation Challenge Awards - Minerals and Energy category - run in association with Shell and supported by the Federal Government's Department of Innovation, Industry and Science and Research (DIISR).

Matthew Carr, a PhD student in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney has published research into a desktop device for studying fusion. Matthew has helped uncover some of the basic principles behind the fusion device called a Polywell, and brought the technology a step closer to being understood with impressive modeling and exciting plans for future research.

A team of University of Sydney researchers have been awarded a NHMRC Grant of $606,325 over three years to develop a stent technology that can simultaneously address the problems of restenosis and thrombogenicity and provide fundamental biocompatibillity.

A pit of writhing snakes, is how the first picture of turbulent gas in our Milky Way has been described by renowned astronomer, Professor Bryan Gaensler, who is based in the University of Sydney's School of Physics.

Research into the most sensitive measurement of force yet recorded has earned University of Sydney physicist Dr Michael Biercuk, in the School of Physics' Quantum Science Group, the National Measurement Institute Prize for Excellence in Measurement Techniques by a scientist under 35.

School of Physics researchers, Professor Marcela Bilek and Professor David McKenzie, have developed a revolutionary new platform technology that is set to have a huge impact on areas as diverse as the early prediction of disease and the production of biofuels.

School of Physics researchers have developed a revolutionary new platform technology that is set to have a huge impact on areas as diverse as the early prediction of disease and the production of biofuels.

Dr Sean Farrell, an ARC Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Physics, is part of an international team of astronomers that has observed an incredibly rare astronomical event - a star that strayed too close to a Super Massive Black Hole being literally torn apart.

In a world first astronomers from the University of Sydney's School of Physics, together with collaborators at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) have commissioned a new instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), making use of new and novel astrophotonic technology.

Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb AC, presented Hadleigh Frost and ISS2011 scholar from Lincoln High School in Canterbury New Zealand, with the prestigious Len Basser Prize for Scientific Leadership at a special reception last night.

Adjunct Assoc. Professor Lyn Oliver was recently recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to medical physics in the field of radiation oncology, and through executive roles with the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, and to professional associations".

Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), was invited to present as a guest speaker at TEDxSydney recently.

For the first time in its 49-year history as many as eight Indigenous Science Scholars will attend the 36th Professor Harry Messel International Science School: Light & Matter (ISS2011), a science education program being held in the School of Physics from 3-16 July.

Professor Alan Title, a US solar physicist from Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, will present stunning images of the Sun in a special Colloquium to be held at the School of Physics on Tuesday 5 July.

Research into tumour-targeting cancer technology by Professor Dale Bailey from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor Clive Baldock and Associate Professor Zdenka Kuncic, both from the School of Physics, will receive $265,000 over four years.

Research into the most sensitive measurement of force yet recorded has earned University of Sydney physicist Dr Michael Biercuk, in the School of Physics' Quantum Science Group, the National Measurement Institute Prize for excellence in measurement techniques by a scientist under 35.

Groundbreaking research in quantum light sources led by CUDOS researchers based within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney will result in information speeds many times faster and data that is almost impossible to hack.

There are over 400 million stars in the Milky Way but only a few are truly massive. An astronomy team at the School of Physics has used the bright X-ray glow from these stars to find where they are hiding in our Galaxy.

University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of stars known as red giants, finding a way to peer deep into their cores to discover which ones are in early infancy, which are fresh-faced teenagers, and which are facing their dying days.

University of Sydney astronomer, Professor Peter Tuthill, is one of an international team of astronomers who have announced a major step forward in the quest to find planets in orbit around distant stars.

University of Sydney astronomer, Professor Peter Tuthill, is one of an international team of astronomers who have announced a major step forward in the quest to find planets in orbit around distant stars.

Dr Nicolae Alexandru Nicorovici was born in Bucharest Rumania in the last year of World War II. He completed his education at the University of Bucharest with a PhD in Atomic Physics, dealing with the relation between interaction cross-sections and unitary symmetries. He then worked for the Rumanian Atomic Energy Commission, specialising in computation and theoretical physics.